Building on Akka I/O: Using Akka Asynchronous Actor Networking is my presentation to the
Scala at the Sea meetup
group on 12 August 2014. This starts with an introduction to the akka.io UDP and TCP support, then shows how the TCP
support can be used to build an SMTP client, including an implementation based on Akka's Finite State Machine (FSM)
support. It also discusses the evolving state of the Reactive Streams Akka implementation, which is intended to provide
support for higher-level protocols in the future. Click the image below to view the slide set (use
mouse clicks or arrow keys to move through the slides, or scroll with your mouse wheel).

Securing Your Communications: Why (Android) SSL isn't always secure... and how to make it secure is my
presentation to the Seattle Android Developers meetup
group on 13 August 2014. This covers both general threats to SSL security and some Android-specific issues, including
ways to improve your security by using the new Play Services ProviderInstaller API to get updated Conscrypt security
code or using the open source Bouncy / Spongy Castle library to replace the platform implementation. Click the image
below to view the slide set (use
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Acting Concurrent: The Akka actor model for Java and Scala is my presentation to the Seattle Java Users Group
meeting on 19 August 2014. This starts with a look at Java 8 and Scala concurrency features, then moves on to using
Akka actors in both Scala and Java, including discussion of retrofitting existing Java applications to Akka. You can view
the full video on Vimeo. Click the image below to view the slide set (use
mouse clicks or arrow keys to move through the slides, or scroll with your mouse wheel).